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Inventions Of The Great War
Read by David Wales
Alexander Russell Bond
“… this war was not one of mere destruction. It set men to thinking as they had never thought before. It intensified their inventive faculti…
Theodore Roosevelt; An Address Delivered Before The Congress Of The United Stat…
Read by David Wales
Henry Cabot Lodge
A biographical encomium delivered on the occasion of Roosevelt's death. Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr. (1858 – 1919) was an Amer…
The Discovery Of The Future
Read by David Wales
H. G. Wells
The Discovery of the Future is a 1902 philosophical lecture by H. G. Wells that argues for the knowability of the future. It was originally …
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America
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Charles Kingston
The title and subtitle pretty much say it all. Twenty biographical sketches of people you would not want your son or daughter to marry. (Sum…
Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas
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Various
Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than thos…
The Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu
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W. S. Gilbert
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…
H.M.S. Pinafore; Or, The Lass That Loved A Sailor
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W. S. Gilbert
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan…
Auguste Rodin
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Rainer Maria Rilke
Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translators’ Preface)Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a …
Who Burnt Columbia?
Read by David Wales
Augustine T. Smythe
This LibriVox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessm…
The Fringes Of The Fleet
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Rudyard Kipling
During the war (WWI), [Kipling] wrote a booklet The Fringes of the Fleet containing essays and poems on various nautical subjects of the war…
A Fleet In Being; Notes Of Two Trips With The Channel Squadron
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Rudyard Kipling
[Kipling] became involved in the debate over the British response to the rise in German naval power known as the Tirpitz Plan to build a fle…
The Pirates Of Penzance; Or The Slave Of Duty (Version 2)
Read by David Wales
W. S. Gilbert
In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’…
Day And Night Stories
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Algernon Blackwood
Fifteen short stories by Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE (1869 – 1951), an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific w…
The Borough
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George Crabbe
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
The Winnowing Fan: Poems On The Great War
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Robert Laurence Binyon
This little gem of a book contains twelve poems about World War I. There is more to it than its intrinsic value as verse. Edward Elgar (18…
Pioneer Life Among The Loyalists In Upper Canada
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Walter Stevens Herrington
What became of the citizens who remained loyal to the Crown when the thirteen British colonies rebelled against England – and won! These Lo…
The Measure Of A Man; A Tale Of The Big Woods
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Norman Duncan
A tale of a singular man at work among lumber-jacks. Duncan's droll style and tongue-in-cheek viewpoint keep the reader and listener much en…
Saunterings In And About London
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Max Schlesinger and Max Schlesingertranslated Byotto Von Wenckstern
A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popu…
Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches
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Unknown
"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…
Rejected Of Men; A Story Of Today
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Howard Pyle
This is a setting of the story of Jesus as if it had occurred during early twentieth century America. The narrator's point of view is that o…